"Triassic Park" (National Poetry Month poem-a-day) Day 15
Written by Bruce A.
Pandolfo
4/15/2017
Dear superintendent, I
hope this package reaches you
I know this may seem
crazy but it's something that I need to do
My wife and I eyed the
signs “don't take pieces of the trees with you”
Saw others'
superstitious letter rolled my eyes “how unbelievable”
Years ago, my wife and
I toured the Triassic Park
We were only courting
then, it was a unique chance to bond
Scientists, we hiked a
bit, chatted, charmed, cast a spark
pocketed “petrified
wood” grabbed the rocks, I had her heart
I crafted a ring from
the stones to show our timeless bond
proposed shortly
afterwards, teary smile and nod, tied the knot
It's vile and odd, ten
years we're vexed fearing it mightn't stop,
doesn't sound like
science talk, I send this hoping that I'm absolved!
The flight we got for
our honeymoon crashed but we survived,
Lucky to be alive, but
next? we conceived a surprised,
See my wife and I never
wanted kids, our tubes were tied,
inexplicably,
conflicted, she contemplated taking juniors' life
The second we saw the
sonogram, our second thoughts were snuffed,
Soon as we started
saving, our lab closed times were tough,
money was tight, sold
the house, late thirties living with parents,
embarrassed we'd soon
be parents too... until the miscarriage
The horror of those
nights, the weeping and the madness
the brutal sense of
guilt, the mourning and the fasting,
Nearly through my
Masters when my university went bankrupt
Great..stuck with
loans and no degree what a universal hate fuck
with lady luck,
luckless, my lady loves being a daily drunk
looked at her finger,
wondering “are we part of Karma's pay stub?!”
ever since we took the
stones, we never broke so many bones
never stubbed so many
toes, never hit so many lows
Never been to so many
wakes, never felt so vexed, afraid
incensed, we sense a
hex is placed,
our penance paid near
every day
we've never caved to
bet on faith but just in case
maybe those thieved
stones are placebos but anyway..
our conscience bears
such heavy weight,
what's sent is encased
to set it straight,
we know pilfering the
petrified wood is a heinous act,
we paid for that, we're
petrified, would you please take and place it back?
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